The General History of Earthquakes: Being an Account of the Most Remarkable and Tremondous Earthquakes that Have in Divers Parts of the World, from the Creation to this Time ... and Particularly Those Lately in Naples, Smyrna, Jamaica and Sicily. With a Description of the Famous Burning Mount Aetna, in that Island ... Likewise the Natural and Material Causes of Earthquakes ...A. Bettesworth ... and J. Hodges, 1734 - 177 pages |
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... deep holes , or long and unfa- thomable Lakes of Water . IV . Authors write differently of the feve- ral kinds of Earthquakes , but they ufually comprehend them under four ; The firit kind is when the Earth is fhaken laterally or to one ...
... deep holes , or long and unfa- thomable Lakes of Water . IV . Authors write differently of the feve- ral kinds of Earthquakes , but they ufually comprehend them under four ; The firit kind is when the Earth is fhaken laterally or to one ...
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... deep Wells is troubled and infected with a Sulphurous fmell , from the peftilent Exhalations long inclofed within the Earth , which now begin to spread a- broad ; And hereupon , in divers places an Earthquake has caufed abundance of ...
... deep Wells is troubled and infected with a Sulphurous fmell , from the peftilent Exhalations long inclofed within the Earth , which now begin to spread a- broad ; And hereupon , in divers places an Earthquake has caufed abundance of ...
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... deep Abyffes of the Sea , forced up the Waves with a moft dreadful fury , and carried all before it upon the Land , which caufed fo horrible an Earth- quake fome time after , that the Kingdom of Naples was almoft ruined , and all Italy ...
... deep Abyffes of the Sea , forced up the Waves with a moft dreadful fury , and carried all before it upon the Land , which caufed fo horrible an Earth- quake fome time after , that the Kingdom of Naples was almoft ruined , and all Italy ...
Page 66
... deep , that the very Sea itself was not fufficient to extinguifh fuch mighty flames ; The fpace of this boyling Fire was about two Acres , and the Fire arofe with fuch mighty force , that it reached even to the Clouds , carrying with it ...
... deep , that the very Sea itself was not fufficient to extinguifh fuch mighty flames ; The fpace of this boyling Fire was about two Acres , and the Fire arofe with fuch mighty force , that it reached even to the Clouds , carrying with it ...
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... deep Ditches by the Inhabitants for eighteen miles round about to prevent any Contagion which might arife from them but the Sulphur or Brimftone was fmelt Twenty four Miles . This Year the Hollan- der's beat the Spanish Fleet upon the ...
... deep Ditches by the Inhabitants for eighteen miles round about to prevent any Contagion which might arife from them but the Sulphur or Brimftone was fmelt Twenty four Miles . This Year the Hollan- der's beat the Spanish Fleet upon the ...
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Page 30 - And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell : and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. And every island fled away, and the mountains •were not found. And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail ; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
Page 25 - And, behold, there was a great earthquake : for the Angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: and for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
Page 24 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent...
Page 28 - And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo. there was a great earthquake ; and the sun became black as sackcloth . of hair, and the moon became as blood...
Page 28 - And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb : For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Page 29 - And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants, the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great, and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
Page 30 - And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
Page 11 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Page 15 - But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit ; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
Page 26 - And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.